Trusted Computing Platforms and Applications

To create a trusted environment for program execution and data storage, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has introduced a set of technologies to create a Trusted Platform, based on a hardware trust anchor capable of protecting sensitive information and identifying the components running in a computer system. A Trusted Platform is built around a cost-effective and tamper-resistant hardware component called Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Although TPM is widely available, building a Trusted Platforms and Applications is not an easy task. This work wants to encourage the usage of Trusted Computing in commodity systems and propose the adoption of the Trusted Computing Technology in different applications which require the guarantee that information is handled correctly. The broad diffusion of Trusted Computing and Trusted Platforms in real life scenarios will allow mitigating software attacks and will allow users to increase confidence on their platforms.